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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The $$$ test prep industry was aggravating the disparity in representation at TJ.

It wasn't the only issue, but it certainly was easier to address than the long-term effects of redlining. 
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What were the long term effects of redlining?

The population of non whites in fairfax was tiny
88k white, 9.7K blacks and no separately measurable hispanics to speak of in 1950 (also 100 asians and 40 all others combined)
260K white, 13.8K blacks and no measurable hispanic population in 1960 (also 900 asians and 94 all others combined)
435K white, 15.8K blacks and no measurable hispanic population in 1970 (also 2200 asians and 1100 all others combined)
539K white, 36K black , 26K all other minority combined in 1980.

How did they redline against the hispanics that weren't here?
And why didn't they redline against the largest non-black minority group, asians?

It wasn't test prep that was aggravating racial disparity at tj.  It was any sort of merit based testing.  For a few years people got it in their heads that tests were racist.

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Redlining is just one example of how systemic racism still affects people today. There are many ways that people end up with limited opportunities.

Expensive test prep certainly aggravated the disparity. Look at the results from the test prep companies. 
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So how did they redline against hispanics that weren't here?
Why didn't they redline against the largest non-black minority group, asian?[/quote]

Redlining is just one example of how systemic racism still affects people today. [u]There are many ways that people end up with limited opportunities. [/u]
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The only example presented was redlining and that seems like a stretch because of the demographics of fairfax during the redlining period.

So what systemic racism limited opportunities for brown immigrants of latin american descent but did not limit opportunities for the brown immigrants of indian descent?
They are both immigrant groups.  
Systemic racism did not make the indian immigrants welathy and the hispanic immigrants poor.
Systemic racism did not make one group of parents well educated and the other not.
What is the racist system here that elevates asians ABOVE whites in academics and suppresses all other groups?  
Why do racist systems seem to like indians so much?[/quote]

Here is what I originally wrote but lost that comment and missed that part when I rushed to retype. 
“it certainly was easier to address than, say, the long-term effects of redlining.”

And I never said all disparities are due to systemic racism. Here is what I said: 
“There are many ways that people end up with limited opportunities.”

There are many, big issues in our society that aren’t easily fixed in a public school admissions process. BUT they can certainly try to reduce disparities caused by expensive test prep. 
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